Agent skill

Tycana

by davepoon in davepoon/buildwithclaude

Persistent task management and productivity intelligence via MCP.

MITAuto-check passedProductivity & Automation

Install Tycana

skills CLI
$ npx skills add davepoon/buildwithclaude --skill tycana -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install davepoon/buildwithclaude tycana --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/davepoon/buildwithclaude.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/all-skills/skills/tycana .claude/skills/tycana && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
tycana
GitHub stars
3.6k
Token cost
~588 tokens
SKILL.md length
198 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
246
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Persistent task management and productivity intelligence via MCP.

  • Tasks that involve Task management
  • SKILL.md covers Prerequisites, Available Tools, Example Prompts and Key Features
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Tycana is an agent skill from davepoon/buildwithclaude. Persistent task management and productivity intelligence via MCP. Captures tasks from conversation, plans your day, tracks patterns, and gives personalized recommendations that improve over time.

Its SKILL.md is about 590 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Productivity & Automation, covering Task management. It works with Model Context Protocol. The repository describes itself as: A single hub to find Claude Skills, Agents, Commands, Hooks, Plugins, and Marketplace collections to extend Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Agent SDK and OpenClaw. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Task management

Example prompts

  • “/tycana”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 616deb5. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

    • tycana.com

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Tycana loads about 588 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 51 tokens; SKILL.md has 198 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~51
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~588

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from davepoon/buildwithclaude at commit 616deb5, republished under its MIT licence (© davepoon). 198 words, ~588 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/tycana/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
tycana
description
Persistent task management and productivity intelligence via MCP. Captures tasks from conversation, plans your day, tracks patterns, and gives personalized recommendations that improve over time.
requires.mcp
tycana
category
project-management

Tycana Productivity

Tycana gives Claude persistent memory about your work across conversations. Connect once via MCP, and every session includes your tasks, projects, deadlines, blockers, and computed intelligence from your patterns.

Homepage: tycana.com Getting started: tycana.com/getting-started

Prerequisites

  • Tycana MCP server connected at https://app.tycana.com/mcp (OAuth 2.1)
  • Or install the Tycana Claude plugin: /plugin install tycana

Available Tools

ToolPurpose
captureCreate tasks from conversation context
completeMark items done with outcome and notes
plan_dayGenerate prioritized daily plan
what_nextEnergy-aware next action recommendation
reviewProgress summary with pattern analysis
get_contextLoad current work context
searchFind items by keyword or filter
list_itemsList items with status/project filters
get_itemGet full detail on a specific item
update_itemModify item properties
relate_itemsCreate blocking/dependency relationships
rememberStore personal preferences and constraints
cleanup_projectArchive completed items in a project
delete_itemRemove an item

Example Prompts

"Plan my day"
"Remind me to update the deployment docs before Friday"
"What should I work on next? I have about an hour and low energy"
"How's the infrastructure project going?"
"Review my week"
"Brain dump — I've got a bunch of things rattling around"

Key Features

  • Capture from conversation — mention something you need to do and it's captured with effort, energy, and project inferred from context
  • Computed intelligence — velocity tracking, slip detection, effort calibration that improves over time
  • Energy-aware recommendations — factors in your current energy level for task suggestions
  • Project graph — items connect via blocking chains and dependencies, not flat lists

© davepoon, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in plugins/all-skills/skills/tycana of davepoon/buildwithclaude.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 616deb5

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AgentRQ Supervisoragentrq/agentrq1.1k—~2.7kAutomated safety check: PassAGPL-3.0
Claap Weekly RecapOthmane-Khadri/YALC-the-GTM-operating-system317—~5.4kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
Task Managementflonat/flonat-research146—~1.6kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
Soul Interviewldbumble/taskuary138—~1.4kAutomated safety check: PassMIT

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Questions about Tycana

What does Tycana do?

Persistent task management and productivity intelligence via MCP. Tycana is an agent skill from davepoon/buildwithclaude. Persistent task management and productivity intelligence via MCP.

When should I use Tycana?

Tycana fits situations like: tasks that involve Task management.

How do I install Tycana in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add davepoon/buildwithclaude --skill tycana -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/all-skills/skills/tycana in davepoon/buildwithclaude) into .claude/skills/tycana in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Tycana in Codex?

Run `npx skills add davepoon/buildwithclaude --skill tycana -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/all-skills/skills/tycana in davepoon/buildwithclaude) into .agents/skills/tycana in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Tycana in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add davepoon/buildwithclaude --skill tycana -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/tycana, .gemini/skills/tycana, .github/skills/tycana and .opencode/skills/tycana in your project.

What does Tycana need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Tycana is instructions for the agent only.

Does Tycana access the network?

SKILL.md names 1 domain. As links in the text: tycana.com. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Tycana safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Tycana use?

Tycana is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Tycana use?

About 588 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.4k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Tycana?

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Who maintains Tycana?

davepoon (a GitHub user) maintains it in davepoon/buildwithclaude, which has 3,605 GitHub stars. The repository holds 246 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: davepoon/buildwithclaude on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.